Midnight Parties and MSNBC

Jordan Minor, a junior at Kingsway Regional High School, Woolwich, is the son of Frank W. Minor, mayor of Logan Township and Floor Whip for the New Jersey delegation to the Democratic National Convention.

For reasons I'll explain later, I'm keeping this one short and sweet.

On Wednesday we attended our first and last "watch party", just in time to see vice presidential candidate Joe Biden deliver his acceptance speech.

A watch party is where you get together with other members of the delegation to eat and drink and "watch" the convention speeches on various televisions.

The watch parties for New Jersey are held at the Inverness hotel. The food was good, but to me there was not enough going on to warrant leaving my hotel room.

Immediately afterward, we went to a party for New Jersey delegates at the Paramount cafe. There was more food, family and friends, and dignitaries like Gov. Corzine and Senator Lautenberg. It was loud and crowded, so we did not stay there for very long.

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann

At the suggestion of our friends Greg and Kathy Moore, we then rode one of the free buses to Union station, arriving just in time to catch the last part of MSNBC's live convention coverage, with political commentators Keith Olbermann, Pat Buchanan, Rachel Maddow, Eugene Robinson, and Norah O'Donell.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow

Wednesday was fun, but the real news of the day, and the reason why this piece is so short, is that on Wednesday we finally acquired the tickets necessary for all of us to attend the last day of the convention, where we will hear presidential candidate Barack Obama's acceptance speech.

As soon as I finish writing this (Thursday afternoon), we will be making our way to Invesco Field.